Comprehension Quotes

• If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Suicide, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

  Rose Kennedy

  Anxiety, Atmosphere, Anxious

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• All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Intelligent, Rise To Power

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Able, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017

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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Taken, Reader, Allegory

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• I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

  Noto

  Emotional, Understanding, Intellectual

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, World, Tongue

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human life is beyond comprehension.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Life, Inspire, Humans

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• I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.

  Decca Aitkenhead

  Self, Empathy, Matter

  "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

  Wendell Berry

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Fighting, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Virtue, Values

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Expression, Creative

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• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Opportunity, Errors

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Taxi, Concrete

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• I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ridiculous, Life Is

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  Paul Getty

  Royal, Economy, Fortune

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• Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Teaching, Men, Unity

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• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

  Joan Miro

  Emotion, Canvas, Born

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